Reply #27: "...the botched early response to Katrina..." [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

It was very noticeable--so noticeable that Rove had to drop a newsturd into the newsstream, way late in the Katrina story, about having been laid up with kidney stones. I think Karl went on strike, to negotiate his Treasongate pardon, and/or his "golden parachute," and/or to get Bush Jr. and his Dad to side with him against Libby.

Bush Jr. was very obviously out there on his own, eating cake and all, while thousands of Americans were dying and a big chunk of the country was getting blown off the map. This went on for days and days. I was very struck by it. Junior was absolutely clueless as to what to do, and how to spin it. And I'm sure it didn't help that Cheney was AWOL as well (until the Katrina loot started flowing his way.) (I think Cheney was actually blackmailing Bush on Treasongate, and that's why Bush had to go down to LA to try to strongarm Blanco into ceding total control to the WH, an absurd demand, under the circumstances. I think he was withholding aid, and using the poor, starving, dehydrated, dying, black people in New Orleans as hostages, trying to meet Cheney's demand for total control of the loot.)

It hadn't occurred to me to wonder if Rove will resign. I think he may have beaten an indictment--Libby is going to take the fall--but may be an "unindicted co-conspirator" along with Cheney. Cheney will resign--mostly to prevent further investigation. (Treasongate is a Pandora's box, believe me.) Will Bush retain an "unindicted co-conspirator?" Good question. I think he will. No indictment, no firing. They're all dirty as hell. What does he care? And the Cheney resignation, and Libby in stripes for a while, will take the spotlight off of Rove, and all his lapdogs among the war profiteering corporate news monopolies will see to that.

He was just an errand boy, you know--for those "black ops" types who think they're James Bond.

Hard to say, though. I won't be held to any of these predictions. The only thing I'm pretty sure of is that there was a deeper plot, underneath Treasongate, that involves David Kelly, the Brits chief WMD expert, who had been whistleblowing to the BBC about their "sexed up" WMD intel, and who was found dead, under highly suspicious circumstances, four days after Plame was outed. I think the two events are connected, possibly by a Bushite plot to plant WMDs in Iraq (for Judith Miller to "find"), which Plame and Kelly knew too much about, or maybe had a hand in foiling. One gets outed. The other gets dead. All in four days time.

Interesting letter from Libby to Miller. Could the "aspens" that are turning "because their roots are connected" be a diversion of the original WMD-planting plot to Iran. (He tells her she should be back at work--and life--reporting on Iranian nukes and "biological threats")? Are they going to rehabilitate her with manufactured evidence that Iran nukes came from Iraq, and were real after all--now that they've eliminated the CIA weapons-monitoring project, and can manufacture anything, and move anything, they want to? (No CIA to say the docs are forged; no covert CIA contacts keeping an eye on things.)

Libby to Miller: Libby is going to take the fall. Everybody else is safe. Miller is going to be vindicated, when their "roots" (Bush Cartel WMD operatives) get their evidence into Iran, or "discover" it crossing the border.

Just a guess. Libby thinks he's John Le Carre as well. (His flowery paragraph is hysterical!)